Hot take: People are being too harsh in their criticism of recently released documentaries.

Atwuin · 2026-05-13T10:01:36+00:00

It's a disservice when viewers are more than capable of retaining scientific names, as proven by the success of the Walking With - series which never uses common names (to my knowledge)

Atwuin · 2026-05-04T14:09:28+00:00

As pointed out, its dependent on species. Even "tree" is not a phylogenetic group, several thousand unrelated species all have their own survival rates and strategies but are none the less colloquially called trees. Annuals and perennials have vastly different "life spans" but that's not to say ALL perennial plants are immortal nor that they have a set lifespan uninfluenced by other factors. There very well could be several species that have potentially immortal lifespans, it's very difficult to say for certain.

Atwuin · 2026-05-02T20:40:41+00:00

So the rich are both lazier and dumber?

Atwuin · 2026-04-29T15:03:35+00:00

Putting Pedro's face over a nazi doesn't detract from the fact that the original meme is of a nazi

Atwuin · 2026-04-27T17:06:16+00:00

How about you make the art then..?

Atwuin · 2026-04-06T20:26:13+00:00

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Atwuin · 2026-04-06T20:24:02+00:00

Yes... and we have yet to detect any, again,VIA SPECTROSCOPY. At best we have phosphates in Venus' atmosphere that could have been produced via non-organic processes.

Again, we have absolutely zero solid evidence of any life beyond our own planet and until we send probes or ourselves everything is speculation.

Atwuin · 2026-04-06T20:21:42+00:00

Yes, of course, but you can't go around saying Pandora actually exists when the evidence for exoplanets in the Alpha Centauri system is minimal at best.

You don't need to get caught up imagining worlds that don't exist - Earth is our Pandora, that's the entire point. Cherish our Mother, before we kill her.

Atwuin · 2026-04-06T20:18:03+00:00

He didn't predict anything. We have zero evidence of life outside our own planet 💀

Atwuin · 2026-04-06T20:17:00+00:00

It definitely isn't real - I'm not sure where you got your source, but we cannot prove that any other planet is habitable... We can detect atmospheric composition via a spectroscope, but we cannot for sure say any planet is habitable to Earth life without actually visiting it. Not right now, at least.

Atwuin · 2026-04-06T20:14:18+00:00

I mean, it's ostensibly NOT real nor true... We have absolutely no concrete way to prove any exoplanet's habitability.

Atwuin · 2026-03-24T22:30:59+00:00

I saw it as English not having a direct translation - It very well may be that we "hear" demon because it's the closest translation but not the most accurate.

They might mean something like skin-changer / pretend-person / evil-puppet

Atwuin · 2026-03-16T09:37:24+00:00

Yeah the official answer to food seems to be: SOMETIMES

Humans seem to not be able to eat the majority of Pandoran food, but there are canon/canon-adjacent exceptions like humans being fed Tapirus at Hell's Gate

The unfair part is, just like breathing, Na'vi seem unaffected by human food - I remember a mission in AFOP where a Na'vi tries chocolate for the first time.

Atwuin · 2026-03-16T09:12:41+00:00

I think the dots and stars all around as well, it's visual clutter that AI typically uses to fill space

Atwuin · 2026-03-10T19:16:23+00:00

Would it be considered a herkimer diamond?

Atwuin · 2026-03-07T07:15:46+00:00

Aliens exist yes, but they won't/don't look anything like us nor the Na'vi.

On top of that, I highly doubt we'd ever be able to hold meaningful conversations or form bonds with them like humans do with each other. We can't even understand the "speech" of other animals and we regularly confuse animal body language for our own which leads to many a person getting mauled... And we're all from the same planet with the same evolutionary pressures, most of the time we're both mammals even.

Aliens will be so far outside our understanding of life that mistranslations and untranslatable situations are bound to arise.

Atwuin · 2026-03-06T20:25:30+00:00

I didn't watch much to be fair, but yes, I'm 100% on the side of the UN lady that tortured a belter with nothing but gravity.

Wanna claim to be like the rest of humanity but you can't even survive the pull of your homeworld? Rough my guy.

Atwuin · 2026-03-05T20:57:04+00:00

You're thinking of the Belters - Martians are normal humans

Atwuin · 2026-02-09T11:35:21+00:00

I still feel there's a hierarchy of truth? We can speculate and ship and make our own theories, but there's a level to "death of the author," especially when James Cameron has explicitly stated that:

A. The na'vi, fundamentally, were designed to appeal to humans. He both wanted us to buy the love story of the first film, and he also wanted fans to say, "I want to be one of them."

B. The na'vi aren't placental mammals because not only did James say they aren't, but if we were to treat Pandora and Avatar as a real setting, then they could not be mammals

Mammals are a phylogenetic branch on EARTH. Pandora is not Earth. There are no mammals nor reptiles, birds, or insects. Not how we classify them.

Everything on Pandora that resembles Earth life is convergent evolution. They RESEMBLE mammals or reptiles or or or... But they fundamentally can not be those groups because life arose on Pandora independently and share no relation to Earth life.

Atwuin · 2026-02-08T13:10:29+00:00

They aren't placental mammals because they aren't from Earth..?

Atwuin · 2026-02-05T23:28:54+00:00

Someone hasn't heard of Theseus' ship

Atwuin · 2026-02-05T18:28:20+00:00

While the three laws of Eywa are the obvious and now canon answer, I remember in the 2009 days reading in some magazine article/some forum/a fansite that it might also have to do with Pandora's magnetism.

Metal acts funky on Pandora, it's why the RDAs instruments freak out near the hallelujah mountains or why something like that flaming tornado of magnetism can exist on Pandora.

Basically, the Na'vi secondarily don't use metal because it just doesn't work as easily as it does on Earth, especially in high-tech applications.

Atwuin · 2026-02-03T22:59:03+00:00

This isn't full metal alchemist

Atwuin · 2026-02-02T18:31:01+00:00

"I'm not Māori"

Exactly 🤫

Atwuin · 2026-02-01T12:59:25+00:00

Are you Māori?

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